Lack of Trust - Software Engineer TORC Robotics Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Team atmosphere is amazing, people are fun to be around. Great collaboration across teams. That part of the culture has not changed. Feel supported up to middle management. Fun atmosphere, great people!

Cons

Over the last year it has become clear that new senior leadership does not trust anyone they preside over. That can be the VP's under them all the way down to managers over teams. Every small decision has to run through the CTO and his office (thus it takes forever to get things back). What is the point of middle management if they never make the decisions themselves or the people they preside over and/or are constantly scrutinized without good reason. Senior leadership wants "data driven decisions" (and there is nothing wrong with that). However, when the engineers turn around and provide those data driven decisions, senior leadership make decisions regardless of the data that is handed to them.

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TORC Robotics Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your honest input. One of our core values here at Torc is “We stay curious,” this means we are humble and open to different points of views. It’s input like this that is important to us, as we encourage an open dialogue. If you would like to discuss this further, please do not hesitate to reach out via email at feedback@torc.ai. Anything you submit here will be communicated to our CHRO directly. We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your perspective!

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